“I do know that there is a difference between artists who are career-driven and artists who have a calling and are just compelled to make music, compelled to perform live, and the business isn't the reason they're doing it. In fact, there isn't really a reason. You just do it.” KnowsReasonFactsArtistDifferencesCareersCallingDrivenCompelledJust Do It Author:Ian Astbury
“I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable about the fact that we're going to die and that we can't stand it and I think you find that out in childhood and you don't really - at least I found it out in childhood and I found it hard to get over.” ThinkingIdeasHardFactsDiesFoundChildhoodDrivenPoetry IsGet OverUnbearableLyric Poetry Author:Edward Hirsch
“We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn't leave a whole lot of time for non-market values and non-market activity so that love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.” WholeValuesJusticePleasurePoorActivityConcernPropertyDrivenSellingObsessedBuyingMarginsLove And TrustBuying And Selling Author:Cornel West
“I like the idea of not looking at trends, not being driven by them. I like what I like and that's it.” IdeasDrivenTrends Author:Erin Wasson
“There's a huge number of things that are occurring with the ice works which fascinate me enormously, but it's driven by this kind of frantic race against time. And whilst that creates a huge amount of tension and problems, it's a tension that I think I feed off.” ThinkingKindProblemNumbersRaceHugeAmountDrivenIceTensionFranticHuge NumbersRace Against Time Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“In other characters, it's driven by insecurity, or it's driven by fear, or - there's always a driver. And all the physical manifestations, you need your way in.” WayNeedsCharacterDrivenManifestationInsecurityDrivers Author:Meryl Streep
“Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes.” WritingIdeasCharacterJokesDriven Author:Allison Silverman
“What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.” TwoCharacterStoriesComedyDrivenAuthenticityTwo ThingsRooted Author:Alex Karpovsky
“What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are the driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up, and remake the world for the better.” WorldGivingOpportunityIndividualSocialEconomyCreativeGiving UpEntrepreneurRefuseDrivenStatus QuoSocial ChangeExploitsRemakesNew OpportunitySocial Entrepreneurship Author:David Bornstein
“Driven, damaged and dangerous, FBI agent Mercy Gunderson is one of the best female leads to come down the pike since Eve Dallas. Lori Armstrong delivers the goods with MERCILESS.” DangerousFemaleMercyDrivenAgentsGoodsFbiDallasArmstrongEve DallasFbi AgentsBest Female Author:Cindy Gerard
“I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.” ThinkingBeautifulArtistBusinessDrivenArtisticMaking MoneyBeautiful ThingsBusinessmanFunny InspirationalService CultureGreat Businessman Author:Lord Acton
“We're either going to be driven to a whole new sense of radical interdependence where we are, in the Bible's words, our neighbor's keeper, or destroy ourselves.” WholeDrivenNeighborRadicalKeepersInterdependence Author:John Shelby Spong
“I think that if you're just a good person, you work hard, you say "yes," and you are driven, you will eventually work your way to the top. At least that's how it's been for me.” IfsThinkingWayPersonsHardHard WorkDrivenGood Person Author:Ainsley Earhardt
“We are driven by the results of the Big Bang, billions of years ago, which eventually produced life, which eventually produced human beings, and so on. But me? I'm an accident - a result - and therefore a victim.” YearsHumansBigsHuman BeingsResultsYears AgoVictimAccidentsDrivenBillionsBangs Author:James Hillman
“Every show that comes out that's female driven is compared to the last female-driven show, as if it's taking over.” IfsShowsLastsFemaleDriven Author:Abbi Jacobson
“Like Trump`s presidential bid, the Brexit campaign has been driven largely by fears of cultural penetration, immigrant invasion, and the genuine crisis of Middle East refugees dying to get into Europe, all channeled into a kind of inward-turning form of ethno-nationalism.” KindHas BeensFormMiddleDyingTrumpEuropeCrisisEastDrivenCampaignsGenuinePresidentialNationalismImmigrantsMiddle EastInwardRefugeeInvasionPenetration Author:Chris Hayes
“Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack was torn between Catholicism, Buddhism, and his own demon-driven pursuit of kicks, between spirit and flesh, between mom's house and the Beat coffeehouse, patriotism and subversion, men and women, society and solitude, carousing and meditation, sacred and profane, secular and divine. It's a miracle he survived as long as he did.” MenLongBookRealitySpiritHouseEasyMeditationDivineBuddhismMomHeroSolitudeBeatsMen And WomenMiracleSacredDrivenFleshPursuitKicksDemonRebellionCatholicismSecularSurvivedTornProfaneNarratorsSubversion Author:Gerald Nicosia
“I like it when people are driven. I love that in any field of work, in architecture or whatever. Like Lorne Michaels - he pays attention to every detail.” PeoplePayAttentionFieldsDetailsDrivenArchitecturePay Attention Author:Fred Armisen
“What I do is work for three or four years and then I take a year off, and then I come back again and work for three or four years and then take another year off. It is not about just working and then writing for a year. That is not how it is structured. It is about doing very conscious goal-driven activities for four years and then taking a year off in complete surrender to discover facets of myself that I don't know exist and exploring interests with no commercial value associated with them at all.” KnowsWritingYearsValuesThreeGoalInterestFourActivityConsciousDrivenSurrenderFour YearsExploringBack AgainFacetsAnother Year Author:Karan Bajaj
“We need to repeal and replace Obamacare. It is the largest tax in U.S. history, has proven to be a job-killer, and has driven up the cost of healthcare.” NeedsJobsCostTaxesDrivenHealthcareKillersProvenObamacare Author:Joni Ernst
“Healthcare should be about market driven solutions, not government mandates.” ShouldGovernmentSolutionsDrivenHealthcareMandates Author:Joni Ernst
“We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.” KnowsLostMoralHabitGreedDrivenCompassMoral Compass Author:Sharon Gannon
“Everyone told me you can't build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren't enough investors or engineers or top-level managers. Each day, I'm driven to prove them wrong.” EnoughLevelsCompanyProveMajorsDrivenManagersEach DayCanadaInvestorsEngineersProve Them Wrong Author:Ryan Holmes
“[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not work.” PeopleDoeCasesCrimeAlcoholDrivenOrganizedJailRepressionProhibitionOrganized Crime Author:Sam Branson
“We agree: Brussels can't regulate everything. I'm driven by something else: There are forces in Europe that want to generally give national policy priority over a common European approach. We have to prevent this.” WantGivingForceCommonPolicyApproachEuropeAgreeDrivenPrioritiesBrussels Author:Martin Schulz
“I'm driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.” PeopleNeedsMeanSelfYoungPassionUnderstandingExpressionRight NowTiredDrivenAbandonSelf Expression Author:Debbie Allen
“We've seen what happened in Libya, what a disaster that's been driven by Hillary Clinton, and the disaster in Syria and almost disaster in Egypt. What a close call that's been. We're not out of the woods yet with Egypt.” HappenedClintonWoodsDrivenDisasterSyriaEgyptLibyaClose Calls Author:Jeff Sessions
“Success will only happen with Afghans leading the charge, and it is far, far more important for Kabul to create and support a purpose-driven school of architecture than to invite a high profile designer to build.” ImportantHappensSchoolPurposeSupportDrivenArchitectureDesignerInvitesProfileHigh ProfileKabul Author:Cameron Sinclair
“I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.” StoriesDrivenTelling Stories Author:Phil Keoghan
“When I watch a singer perform, or an athlete, I can't help but be driven to be the best I can be at my craft.” I CanHelpingWatchesAthleteDrivenSingersCraftsBeing The Best Author:Jonathan Sadowski
“The whole journey of style-driven subcultural movements is finished now in the UK. The internet kind of killed it.” KindWholeJourneyStyleMovementInternetFinishedDriven Author:Don Letts
“I'm always driven by something. It doesn't matter what it is, it could be the smallest task or something huge.” MatterHugeTasksDrivenSmallest Author:Bobby Williams
“Certainly one is brought to the brink of one's sense of who one is, what one has to do, why me, why now, why in this time in history? I am really driven, believe it or not, am awakened by a sense of being in this powerful axis, this turning point in human history.” BelieveHumansPowerfulDrivenHuman HistoryAwakenedTurning PointsAxesWhy MeWhy Now Author:Jean Houston
“When you think about the real cost of so-called cheap energy that has driven our prosperity to unprecedented levels, for some of us, to our horror, we've realized that this has the potential for burning brightly and then snuffing out.” ThinkingRealEnergyLevelsHorrorCostProsperityDrivenBurningUnprecedented Author:Sylvia Earle
“That attitude of arrogance, that attitude of "It's all about me. It's all about what I can get out of life now" - well, I'm personally driven by wanting to get out of my life the best I can achieve as a gift for those who come after me.” WellsI CanAttitudeAchieveDrivenArrogance Author:Sylvia Earle
“When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions that had been happening all over the world, and how computers and the internet had helped those movements. He encouraged me to read a book about Anonymous, the hacker group called "white hat" hackers, meaning they're driven by ideology and social disruption as opposed to just greed.” WorldWritingBookIdeasStoriesSocialWhiteGroupsMovementRevolutionInternetComputerHappeningsGreedDrivenIdeologyHatsDisruptionHackersSocial Movements Author:Julia Stiles
“I'm mostly surprised by the fact he's still alive; given that people have been trying to silence him for almost fifty years, he really shouldn't be. Aged thirty, Abdellatif [Laâbi's ] was kidnapped from his home in Rabat by plainclothes policemen, bundled into the back of an unmarked car, driven to a dingy gaol, and tortured for days on end.” PeopleTryingYearsHas BeensStillsEndsFactsHomeGivenSilenceAliveCarDrivenThirtyFiftyPolicemenKidnapped Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely
“We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."” IfsWantWritingTryingWellsEnoughDreamPainPleasureFailingAchieveSmartDrivenEducatedAttractiveRejectionOur DreamsStop TryingWell Educated Author:Tony Robbins
“If you're going to decide to run a data-driven campaign, decision-making has to follow it.” IfsRunningDecisionDrivenCampaignsDataDecision Making Author:Ted Cruz
“The razor-sharp line of division that exists between political ideologies in our own country in the United States, I think it's clear that these movements are forming - and one is more forward thinking and more embracing and more inclusive. The other is less tolerant and more judgemental and more fear-driven and fear-based. I think, you know, over the next generation, we're going to see which way we turn as a civilisation.” ThinkingKnowsWayCountryStatesPoliticalTurnsNextLinesUnitedUnited StatesClearGenerationsMovementDrivenIdeologyDivisionNext GenerationCivilisationRazorsJudgementalPolitical IdeologyForward Thinking Author:Zachary Quinto
“You should be able to drink a clean cup of water and you should be able to write your own name. That's the kind of stuff that holds dear to me, not I'm the best rapper. That doesn't matter to me. At that point it's all ego to me and I don't want to be driven by that and I try my best not to.” WantShouldWritingTryingKindMatterAbleNamesStuffWaterDrinkEgoCleanDearDrivenCupsRapperWrite Your OwnBest Rapper Author:Asher Roth
“Now with digital, we have much better projection, and if the theaters are charging higher prices but providing refreshments and a clean, well-lit theater, there's no reason why this cannot go on as a senior-citizen-driven business for years. Especially with movies for adults.” IfsYearsWellsReasonGoes OnHigherCitizensAdultsTheaterCleanDrivenReason WhyDigitalNo ReasonProvidingSeniorLitProjectionChargingSenior CitizenRefreshments Author:Oliver Stone
“Energy and consciousness are in a continual state of interaction: energy is shaped and directed by consciousness which is itself driven by energy.” StatesEnergyConsciousnessDrivenInteraction Author:John Pierrakos
“Malick is so far on the other side of the spectrum in terms of his character. Malick is a complete recluse, and not at all driven by ego or championing who he is as an individual. It's all about the art. Whereas Herzog is constantly placing himself into the engine. Malick is such a gentle poet.” ArtCharacterIndividualSidesTermPoetEgoDrivenGentleEnginesSpectrumRecluse Author:Sam Pressman
“I hate the term "mystery". That's not what I write. I think the Scarpetta novels are much more character-driven than an average puzzle solver. Writing should be like a pane of glass - there's another world on the other side and your vision carries you there, but you're not aware of having passed through a barrier to get there.” ThinkingWorldShouldWritingCharacterHateSidesTermVisionNovelMysteryI HateAverageGlassesDrivenBarriersCarriePuzzlesAnother World Author:Patricia Cornwell
“My Dad played the trombone and I think my Mom played the piano for about two years. It is very self-driven. They pushed me to do piano lessons, but they were never forceful about anything. They never pushed me to sing or anything, it was something that I did myself.” ThinkingYearsTwoSelfMomDadLessonsMy DadMy MomDrivenPianoTwo YearsPiano LessonTrombone Author:Thomston
“A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.” MenEnergyWorkDriven Author:William Frederick Book
“I still have the drive. I just want to push the barriers and see what I can do and how far I can go. I am just determined and driven.” WantStillsI CanCan DoDeterminedDrivenBarriers Author:Usain Bolt
“I think also, obviously, having someone like Lucas [Goodman], and the people around me are very, not gender-driven or any of that, so when we come in as thing, that's what it is. You can work with us or not work with us and I think that has been helpful. I don't try to put myself in a vulnerable position in that way. I won't just sit quietly.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingHas BeensPositionGenderDrivenVulnerableHelpfulGoodman Author:Jillian Hervey